- Title: ED-25
- Summary: TAKE A GOOD LOOK/ ERNIE KOVACS SHOW: ERNIE HEADS PANEL SHOW WITH GUEST PANEL INCLUDING CESAR ROMERO, EDIE ADAMS AND CARL REINER. THE PANEL MUST GUESS THE OCCUPATION OF KOVAC'S GUESTS. KOVACS ACTS OUT A VARIEY OF HILARIOUS SKITS THAT PROVIDE HINTS AS TO THE GUEST'S OCCUPATION. HIS GUESTS INCLUDE, CHESS WORLD CHAMP BOBBY FISHER AND HIS 2ND GUEST, MRS. LILLIAN PARKS, MAID, SEAMSTRESS AND HEAD OF LINEN DEPARTMENT AT WHITE HOUSE, SERVING 4 PRESIDENTS.
- Description:01:00:04 - CU HAND PLACING COIN IN 1950S VIDEO MACHINE. ZOOM IN ON SCREEN... TITLE: "ERNIE KOVACS - TAKE A GOOD LOOK" VARIOUS SHOTS KOVACS IN VARIETY DISGUISES, INCLUDING LONG HAIR ERNIE WITH CIGAR IN MOUTH 01:00:18 - VARIOUS SHOTS "DUTCH MASTERS CIGARS" COMMERCIAL. "NOW HERE HE IS "ERNIE KOVACS". 01:00:32 - CU ERNIE KOVACS ON PHONE SEATED BEFORE MICS ON HIS PANEL SHOW, INTRODUCES HIS PANEL OF EXPERTS. "2 YOUNG DOCTORS FROM SALISBURY, AUSTRIA. DR. cARL. REINER AND DR. CESAR ROMERO. 01:00:57 - ABOUT DR. REINER: "WROTE A WONDERFUL PAMPHLET TITLED, " HOW VERICOSE VEINS CAN BE FUN". AND DR. CESAR ROMERO WHO WROTE "WHAT THE RUSSIANS THINK OF GERMAN MEASLES". BOTH TAKE SEATS ON PANEL. 01:01:31 - KOVACS INTRODUCES HIS 3RD PANEL MEMBER AS "THE 3RD HUNGARIAN MEMBER OF THEIR WRESTLING TEAM" WHO WROTE SONG, "I WAS A POLISH SALAMI FOR THE FBI".", EDIE ADAMS". 01:02:06 - DUTCH MASTERS CIGARS COMMERCIAL. 01:03:07 - KOVACS INTRODUCES HIS FIRST GUEST TO THE PANEL AND AUDIENCE. CU 17 YEAR OLD BOBBY FISHER, INTERNATIONAL GRAND MASTER OF CHESS, SITS NEXT TO KOVACS AS HIS (KOVAC;S) 1ST GUEST. . 01:03:42 - HAVING INTRODUCED HIS GUEST, KOVACS PUTS ON A VARIETY OF SKITS THAT ARE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE CLUES S TO HIS PANEL AS TO THE SECRET GUEST'S VOCATION (CHESS PLAYER). 01:03:43 - CLUE #1 - ABOVE VIEW TENNIS MATCH - CU FEMALE INTERVIEWER (EDIE ADAMS, WITH OUTLANDISH HAT INTERVIEWS "MR. RON LOVELY "(KOVACS). 01:04:19 - CU MR. LOVELY (KOVACS WITH SLICKED BACK HAIR AND SUPER LONG EYELASHES, TENNIS RACKET IN HAND, RESPONDS TO QUESTIONS.. 01:04:56 - MR. LOVELY (KOVACS) AND FEMALE INTERVIEWER TURN THEIR HEADS FROM SIDE TO SIDE AS THEY FOLLOW BALL IN TENNIS MATCH. 01:05:30 - MR. LOVELY CATCHES TENNIS BALL HIT INTO STANDS BY PLAYER. HE AUTOGRAPHS IT AND THROWS IT BACK. 01:05:55 - CU AUTOGRAPHED BALL IS THROWN BACK AT MR. LOVELY AND LANDS IN HIS MOUTH. CU AUTOGRAPHED TENNIS BALL IN KOVAC'S MOUTH. 01:06:11 - CARL REINER, FOLLOWED BY CESAR ROMERO, THEN EDIE ADAMS EACH FAIL TO GUESS THE GUESTSOCCUPATION , SO KOVACS PUTS ON ANOTHER SKIT IN WHICH HE (MR. LOVELY) PLAYS A KNIGHT IN ARMOR.. 01:11:10 - AFTER 2 MORE FUNNY SKITS IN WHICH NR LOVELY (KOVACS) PLAYS A KNIGHT IN ARMOUR, CARL REINER CORRECTLY GUESSES THE GUEST'S OCCUPATION AS INTERNATIONAL CHESS CHAMPION, BOBBY FISHER. 01:14:26 - CU 2ND GUEST IS INTRODUCED AS MRS. LILLIAN ROGERS PARK, WHO FOR 30 YEARS SERVED 4 PRESIDENTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 01:14:50 - IN 1ST HILARIOUS SKIT TO GIVE THE PANEL A HINT TO HER (GUEST) IDENTITY, EDIE ADAMS, DRESSED AS A SPANISH BEAUTY, WHO DANCES, AS KOVACS PLAYS OUT A MASKED ZORRO TYPE NAMED EL STUPIDO. 01:17:55 - AFTER THE SKIT, THE PANEL (CESAR ROMERO, EDIE ADAMS AND CARL REINER, ASK THE GUEST QUESTIONS, BUR FAIL TO GUESS HER OCCUPATION. 01:19:19 - IN FINAL HILARIOUS SKIT TO SUPPLY PANEL WITH HINTS TO THE GUEST'S OCCUPATION, KOVACS PLAYS A SUPERMAN CHARACTER WITH HUGE PADDED SHOULDERS. 01:23:11 - BACK TO PANEL, WITH EACH MEMBER (ROMERO, ADAMS, REINER) MAKE ANOTHER FAILED ATTEMPT AT GUESSING THE GUEST;S OCCUPATION.. 01:24:21 - MORE ON THE SKIT WHERE KOVACS PLAYS SUPERMAN CHARACTER. EDIE ADAMS IS ALSO FEATURED IN THE SKIT. 01:25:22 - PANEL WITH ROMERO, ADAMS AND REINER MAKE THEIR FINAL FILED ATTEMPT TP GUESS THE GUEST'S OCCUPATION (MAID , SEAMSTRESS AND HEAD OF THE LINEN ROOM IN WHITE HOUSE, SERVING 4 PRESIDENTS). MRS. LILLIAN PARKS. 01:27:17 - EDIE ADAMS DOES SEXY COMMERCIAL FOR MURIEL CIGARS (SPONSOR OF SHOW). 01:28:47 - END OF SHOW
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1959
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: ED-25